hey all!!
well i love playing the game neverball... and neverputt... opensource game for linux that is addictive beyond all reason.
http://icculus.org/neverball/
well.. when you compile this program it didnt really have an install.. it just built in the src directory.
well i was getting tired of
$cd neverball*
$./neverball
SOOO i decided to get dirty and write my first script!!!
i did some google searching and found this link
http://freeos.com/guides/lsst/ch01sec09.html
this was entirely responsible for me learning linux scripting... although from looking at them before i kinda knew what had to be where... so i knew what it should look like etc etc
and after some trial and error it worked!
its too simple but fantastic for a first throw at programming/scripting i think
it asks you to choose between neverball and neverputt
then it reads the keyboard output as $choice
then if choice equals 1 it launches neverball... if it equals 2 it launches neverputt...
if it equals 3 or more it says to choose 1 or 2 and exits.
simple... before i knew what code to use at all i was able to picture what the script would need to do and how i might be able to do it... i think that helped me being it gave me an idea of what i need to look for
in order for the program to work the neverball src dir needs to be in your home folder or ~...
i might expand on this and make it search for it...
SO comments, questions anyone?